Holder for edge-tools



(No Model.)

0. W. NEWOOMB. HOLDER FOR EDGE TOOLS.-

Patented Nov. 25; 1890.

I 031L071? aware Wihjessas NITED STATES ()BADIAII \V. NEVCOMB, OF\VELDA, KANSAS.

HOLDER FOR EDGE-TOOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 441,325, dated November25, 1890.

Application filed July '7, 1890. Serial No. 357,954. (No model.)

. To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OBADIAH W. NE-WCOMB, a citizen of the United States,residing at lVelda, in the county of Anderson and State of Kansas, haveinvented a new and useful Holder for Edge-Tools, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention has relation to devices for holding in an adjustableposition edge-tools during the operation of grinding the same.

The objects of the invention are to provide a device adapted to supportin various positions any ordinary edge-tool, whereby the same may beproperly presented to the action of the grindstone; said device to be ofcheap, simple, and durable construction, easily manipulated, andadapted, in addition to serving as a tool-holder for the above purpose,to serve as a convenient bench-vise.

With the above objects in view the invention consists in certainfeatures of construction hereinafter specified, and particularlypointedout in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a deviceconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalvertical section. Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of the base-plate;Fig. 4, of the upper section of the telescopic standard.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of thedrawings.

1 designates the base-block, which is designed to be secured to asuitable portion of the frame of the grindstone, or may be aportion ofthe grindstone-frame itself. A plate 2 is let into the upper face of theblock, and threaded therein is a set-screw 3.

4 designates a base-plate longitudinally slotted, as at 5, which slotreceives the setscrew 3. At one end of the base-plate 4 is located abearing-post 6, provided with a cir-' cular centrally-perforatedratchet-plate 7, in which is mounted abinding-screw 8.

9 designates the lower section of a telescopic standard, which sectionis provided with a ratchet face or disk 10 at its lower end, whichinterlocks with the ratchet-disk 7, and is maintained in an adjustedposition with relation thereto by means of the bindingscrew 8, passingthrough the said section 9.

11 designates the upper section of the standard, which is mounted forslidingin the lower section, in which it is adjusted by means of aset-screw 12. The upper end of the upper section 11 is provided with aratchetdisk 13, in which is mounted a bindingscrew 14.

15 designates an adjustable head, the same consisting of a pair of jaws16, hinged together, as at 17, said jaws being provided at their freeends with inwardly-disposed gripping-flanges 18.

19 designates a slot formed in one of the jaws-in this instance theupper oneand through said slot there extends a clamping screw 20, thelower end of whiehis connected to the lower jaw.

21 designates a tootheddisk which is connected to and operates inconjunction with the toothed disk 13 by means of the bindingscrew 14. Onone side of the disk 21 is located a pair of eyes 22, which areconnected to the jaws 15 through the medium of the pintle 17 of saidjaws.

It will be observed that by manipulating the screw 12 any tool, asasickle-bar or other edge-tool, gripped by the jaws may be raised andlowered.

The screws 14 and 8 may be manipulated to give the desired inclinationand the screw 3 operated so that the standard may be advanced to orwithdrawn from the grindstone.

23 designates a latch pivoted upon the binding-screw 14, said latchhaving its free end notched, as at 24, and may be partially rotated, sothat said notch takes over the screw 20, and by turning the nut upon thescrew the jaws 15 will be raised to a vertical position, and the devicemay be employed as an ordinary vise, adapted for the reception ofvarious articles for the purpose of riveting, screwing, filing, &c., asis required very often during the day around a farm. It will thus beseen that my invention is useful at all times, its utility not beinglimited merely to the harvesting-time.

Having described my invention, what I claim isk 1. The combination, witha standard terminating at its upper end in a ratchet-disk, of acompanion disk interlockingwithsaid ra tchetdisk, a binding-screw, apair of jaws hinged to each other and to said companion disk, a setscrewpassing through the jaws, and a notched latch pivotally mounted upon theset-screw which connects the ratchet-disk, said latch being adapted fortaking under the set-screw of the jaws, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the base 1, the binding-plate 2, the slottedbase-plate 4, the set-screw 3, passing through the slotted plate andinto the base, and the post 6, having the ratchet plate or disk 7, ofthe sections 9 and 11, telescopically connected, and the set-screw 12for adjusting the same, the plate 10, toothed and located at the lowerend of the lower section, the set-screw 8 for connecting the said plateor disk with the disk '7, the disk 13, 10-

cated at the upper end of the upper section, ['5 the disk 21, having theeyes 22, the hinged jaws 15, one of which is slotted, as at 19, thebinding-screw 20, passing through the jaws, and the binding-screw 14,passing through the disks 13 and 21, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

OBADIAH \V. NEYVCOMB.

Witnesses:

BERLIN PRICE, FRANK G. W. Wooos.

